It is a heart-warming thing in an avaricious and self-seeking world that so many environmental charities receive the funding to enable them to gift countless millions to help protect and preserve both the planet itself and some of its most endangered occupants. I, for one, value their efforts and applaud their patrons.

However, when I was recently contemplating these great works, I was somewhat taken aback by the commentary I received from the etheric. Here was their take on the subject.

At this time, many wonderful beings are choosing to extinct themselves from this planet. They do so for some very telling reasons.

Some species, over time, will naturally extinct themselves. This happens when they exhaust all of the permutations of the possible for whatever type of being they are. Usually, it occurs over thousands of years, in linear terms; longer if we could conceive of what time actually is.

But at this moment, the opportunities that exist for many species to expand upon the parameters of existence for their type of being have been stunted by human presence and human encroachment upon their lives and consequent opportunities for living. Their potential is limited to the point where it is no longer practical to pursue an incarnated reality upon Gaia whilst there is an invasive and damaging presence that limits them to such a great extent that a lifetime here offers precious little value.

Add to this the fact that some are now here in such limited numbers that comparative referencing (that is such a vital element for experiencing incarnate reality in the first place) when transitioning back through the etheric is no longer possible. And whilst here, the sheer paucity of numbers makes the experience of life a lonely and desolate one. So why come back at all?

Add all this up, and you will understand why, for many species, irrespective of any amount of well-meaning intervention from environmental saints, extinction is now an inevitability. Captive breeding programs and militaristic levels of protection may cause a limited cessation of decline or even short term recovery for some, but the opportunities for consequent living and expansion of sentience that these situations in themselves create is a retrograde step, and presents precious little worthwhile learning progression.

And there is a further, perhaps even more complex dimension to this.

We exist alongside wondrous creatures in order to explore our relationships with them, just as we do with other humans, not to dominate them, be in mastery over them and callously slaughter them. There’s room for a bit of that, but it happened millennia ago and we’re way past that now. The sight of a human proudly posing over the slain carcass of any wantonly slain being is at once both an anachronism and a tragedy. Yet as beings are driven out of existence, our relentless pursuit of mindless and unnecessary human supremacy inexorably results in other species moving to the next place in the line.

So in a bleak attempt to stop this, many of the most magnificent, awe inspiring and high profile creatures that exist on the planet today have decided to ‘go’. It is hoped that extinctions will alert human kind to the consequences of their actions, and inactions. In other words, it is intended that the impact of the absence of a few will alert us to what is happening all around us and cause us to pause before it’s too late.

Does that strike you as alarming? It should.

Humans are the most insidious beings on a planet that is meant to be available for shared and comparative experience. When we systematically wipe out other forms of life at an exponentially increasing rate, we majorly impact upon the value of us being here in the first place. And if there’s no value to us being here, it would be better if we were not here simply so as to allow the countless other life forms (whose lives and purposes are every bit as precious and important ours) to live out their experiences without malevolent and destructive intervention.

If we continue to follow our pathway, it is an absolute certainty that Gaia will simply wipe us off her being. She can, she’s prepared to, she’s allowed to, and as I alluded to in A Piece of Heaven, she’s already been rehearsing. Perhaps we glibly accept this as our ultimate fate and are content to believe it may not happen for hundreds or even thousands of years. Be aware that at this point, it’s more likely to happen within decades.

I am humbled by the fact that any creature would be prepared to sacrifice its own potential for the benefit of others, as rhinos, gorillas, tigers, orangutans and elephants are doing. It is our own short sightedness and inability to make the connection between our lives and theirs; our disregard for the sanctity of all life, or failure to observe the interconnectivity of all things and comprehend that everything we do comes back to us that has caused this.

I will continue to admire environmental groups and their efforts to halt the tidal wave that is coming our way, but I will be swamped by the sadness of the knowledge of the ultimate futility of such admirable and well intentioned efforts. Those they seek to help are already doomed, and if we don’t wise up to why, pretty soon, so are we.